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Ontics

Author : Mike Hockney
Publisher : Magus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontics written by Mike Hockney and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Way Is there a better way of doing physics that retains the best of current physics while going far beyond it? Physics is currently based on the claim – and claim it most certainly is – that physics deals with something real (let's call that real thing "matter", though there is no ontological definition of matter) and it can be somehow analyzed by an unreal, manmade abstraction, namely mathematics. But what happens if you accept a different assertion, one that makes mathematics not an abstraction but a concrete reality, an ontology? As soon as you make mathematics real, you cast doubt on the reality of matter. But do we need to make a definitive choice? Why not operate both systems – one based on mathematics as real, and one based on matter as real – and then try to find a way to synthesize these different views? Kant, with his transcendental idealism, sought to reconcile empiricism and rationalism. Ontics seeks to reconcile the empiricism of materialism and the rationalism of mathematics. Ontics, via ontological mathematics, gives mind a reality that is entirely absent in materialism. So, with science on the one hand and ontological mathematics on the other hand, body and soul, matter and mind can start to be brought together into a single system. Isn't explaining mind science's biggest challenge? Ontological mathematics provides that exact capacity! Isn't it time for the ultimate paradigm shift? Isn't it time for an intellectual revolution, for a true age of reason?!

The Theory of Ontic Modalities

Author : Uwe Meixner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326892
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Ontic Modalities written by Uwe Meixner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive, non-model-theoretic theory of ontic necessity and possibility within a formal (and formalized) ontology consisting of states of affairs, properties, and individuals. Its central thesis is that all modalities are reducible to intrinsic (or "logical") possibility and necessity if reference is made to certain states of affairs, called "bases of necessity." The viability of this Bases-Theory of Modality is shown also in the case of conditionals, including counterfactual conditionals. Besides the ontological aspects of the philosophy of modality, also the epistemology of modality is treated in the book. It is shown that the Bases-Theory of Modality provides a satisfactory solution to the epistemological problem of modality. In addition to developing that theory, the book includes detailed discussions of positions in the philosophy of modality maintained by Alvin Plantinga, David Lewis, Charles Chihara, Graeme Forbes, David Armstrong, and others. Among the themes treated are: possibilism vs. actualism; the theory of essences; conceivability and possibility; the nature of possible worlds; the nature of logical, nomological, and metaphysical possibility and necessity.

Ontic Ethics

Author : Hollis G. Wright
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498520111
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Ontic Ethics written by Hollis G. Wright and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book claims that any one who cares more and better, exists more and better. Much has been written about how character affects action, but this book describes how actions and passions affect character ontologically. There is an independent, not culturally relative source for the ethics of care in an ontology of the self. Ethical and aesthetic flourishing is at once ontological flourishing of the largest, truest self. The book includes many illustrations of how behavior and attitudes have consequences not only for who, but for how much we are. It refines the concept of flourishing originating with Aristotle, showing how values that encourage flourishing of the world as it relates to any person, reflexively enhance the flourishing of that person, hence offering a bridge across the fact/value chasm and a cure for ethical relativism. Classical and modern philosophers writing about the nature of a self are engaged to provide a platform from which further advances can be made on several problems in general philosophy that relate to the ontology of a self. These include the use of the term “existence,” a bundle theory showing a way substance can be made up of attributes, an exploration of unity in a self, an evaluation of necessary constituents of selfhood, a theory of how persons are constituted in space and time, a portrayal of how existential intensity relates to the exercise of power, and a proposal about how free acts and stances can be connected to character. Applications of an ontology of care to problems of partiality, specialization, limitation, age and death are outlined in the final chapters. All these issues are engaged to explicate the connection between ontological and ethical flourishing of the self/world combination.

The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon

Author : Mark A. Wrathall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108640834
Total Pages : 1605 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon written by Mark A. Wrathall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 1605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly influenced philosophers including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, Hubert Dreyfus, Stanley Cavell, Emmanuel Levinas, Alain Badiou, and Gilles Deleuze. His accounts of human existence and being and his critique of technology have inspired theorists in fields as diverse as theology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and the humanities. This Lexicon provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to Heidegger's notoriously obscure vocabulary. Each entry clearly and concisely defines a key term and explores in depth the meaning of each concept, explaining how it fits into Heidegger's broader philosophical project. With over 220 entries written by the world's leading Heidegger experts, this landmark volume will be indispensable for any student or scholar of Heidegger's work.

Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science

Author : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792332336
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beijing International Conference, 1992

Why Does What Exists Exist? Some Hypotheses on the Ultimate “Why” Question

Author : Mariano L. Bianca
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527565432
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Why Does What Exists Exist? Some Hypotheses on the Ultimate “Why” Question written by Mariano L. Bianca and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combination of current cosmology, physical theories, ancient cosmogonies, theologies, and metaphysics poses three main questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does being take many forms? What is the origin of everything? Many different answers have been given in various different fields to these questions. In theological, creationist metaphysics, the only answer is the existence of a creator who has given rise not only to everything, but also to the laws that govern existence. Non-theological metaphysics, instead, has engaged in the determination of some first principles (archái), from which derives the reality in its various forms. Science, for a long time, evaded these questions, focusing instead on particular aspects of reality by formulating explanations of natural phenomena. In the course of their current development, physics (including quantum theory) and cosmology have posed questions concerning the origin of the whole universe and the reasons for its existence. They believe it is possible to formulate a theory of everything, just as metaphysical cosmologists and theologians thought. The papers collected in this volume offer interesting contributions to the debates surrounding this ultimate “why” question.

Neural Mechanisms

Author : Fabrizio Calzavarini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030540928
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Neural Mechanisms written by Fabrizio Calzavarini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the authors, as the volume builds on the experience of Neural Mechanisms (NM) Online – webinar series on the philosophy of neuroscience organized by the editors of this volume. The contributed chapters pertain to five core areas in current philosophy of neuroscience. It surveys the novel forms of explanation (and prediction) developed in cognitive neuroscience, and looks at new concepts, methods and techniques used in the field. The book also highlights the metaphysical challenges raised by recent neuroscience and demonstrates the relation between neuroscience and mechanistic philosophy. Finally, the book dives into the issue of neural computations and representations. Assembling contributions from leading philosophers of neuroscience, this work draws upon the expertise of both established scholars and promising early career researchers.

The Spontaneous Brain

Author : Georg Northoff
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262038072
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Spontaneous Brain written by Georg Northoff and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem—whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically, and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider the world-brain problem rather than the mind-body problem. This calls for a Copernican shift in vantage point—from within the mind or brain to beyond the brain—in our consideration of mental features. Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, explains that empirical evidence suggests that the brain's spontaneous activity and its spatiotemporal structure are central to aligning and integrating the brain within the world. This spatiotemporal structure allows the brain to extend beyond itself into body and world, creating the “world-brain relation” that is central to mental features. Northoff makes his argument in empirical, ontological, and epistemic-methodological terms. He discusses current models of the brain and applies these models to recent data on neuronal features underlying consciousness and proposes the world-brain relation as the ontological predisposition for consciousness.

The Fragmentation of Being

Author : Kris McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191030376
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fragmentation of Being written by Kris McDaniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.

Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics

Author : Diederik Aerts
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9813276908
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics written by Diederik Aerts and published by World Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most fascinating and important open questions in science: What is quantum mechanics talking about? Quantum theory is perhaps our best confirmed physical theory. However, despite its great empirical effectiveness and the subsequent technological developments that it gave rise to in the 20th century, from the interpretation of the periodic table of elements to CD players, holograms and quantum state teleportation, it stands even today without a universally accepted interpretation. The novelty of the book comes from the multiple viewpoints and subjects investigated by a group of researchers from Europe and North and South America.

Mathematical Foundations of Information Flow

Author : Samson Abramsky
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821849239
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Information Flow written by Samson Abramsky and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on the 2008 Clifford Lectures on Information Flow in Physics, Geometry and Logic and Computation, held March 12-15, 2008, at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The varying perspectives of the researchers are evident in the topics represented in the volume, including mathematics, computer science, quantum physics and classical and quantum information. A number of the articles address fundamental questions in quantum information and related topics in quantum physics, using abstract categorical and domain-theoretic models for quantum physics to reason about such systems and to model spacetime. Readers can expect to gain added insight into the notion of information flow and how it can be understood in many settings. They also can learn about new approaches to modeling quantum mechanics that provide simpler and more accessible explanations of quantum phenomena, which don't require the arcane aspects of Hilbert spaces and the cumbersome notation of bras and kets.

Bananaworld

Author : Jeffrey Bub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198718535
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Bananaworld written by Jeffrey Bub and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What on earth do bananas have to do with quantum mechanics? From a modern perspective, quantum mechanics is about strangely counterintuitive correlations between separated systems, which can be exploited in feats like quantum teleportation, unbreakable cryptographic schemes, and computers with enormously enhanced computing power. Schro'dinger coined the term "entanglement" to describe these bizarre correlations. Bananaworld -- an imaginary island with "entangled" bananas -- brings to life the fascinating discoveries of the new field of quantum information without the mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics. The connection with quantum correlations is fully explained in sections written for the non-physicist reader with a serious interest in understanding the mysteries of the quantum world. The result is a subversive but entertaining book that is accessible and interesting to a wide range of readers, with the novel thesis that quantum mechanics is about the structure of information. What we have discovered is that the possibilities for representing, manipulating, and communicating information are very different than we thought.

Exploring Quantum Foundations with Single Photons

Author : Martin Ringbauer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319649884
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Quantum Foundations with Single Photons written by Martin Ringbauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis uses high-precision single-photon experiments to shed new light on the role of reality, causality, and uncertainty in quantum mechanics. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the current understanding of quantum foundations and details three influential experiments that significantly advance our understanding of three core aspects of this problem. The first experiment demonstrates that the quantum wavefunction is part of objective reality, if there is any such reality in our world. The second experiment shows that quantum correlations cannot be explained in terms of cause and effect, even when considering superluminal influences between measurement outcomes. The final experiment in this thesis demonstrates a novel uncertainty relation for joint quantum measurements, where the textbook relation does not apply.

Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy

Author : Elodie Boublil
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793639531
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy written by Elodie Boublil and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: The Roots of Desire, edited by Elodie Boublil, investigates the works of French philosophers who have been relegated to the margins of the canon, even if their teachings and writings have been recognized as highly influential. The contributions gather around the concept of “desire” to make sense of the French philosophical debate throughout the twentieth century. The first part of the volume investigates the concept of desire by questioning the role of reflexivity in embodiment and self-constitution. It examines specifically the works of three authors—Maine de Biran, Jean Nabert, and Jean-Louis Chrétien—to highlight their specific contribution to twentieth-century French philosophy. The second part of the volume explores desire's pre-reflective and affective dynamics that resist objectification and reflexivity by analyzing the contributions of lesser-known thinkers such as Simone Weil, Sarah Kofman, and Henri Maldiney. The last part of the volume focuses on three philosophical endeavors that aim to positively rethink the foundations of phenomenology and French philosophy: Jacques Garelli, Marc Richir, and Mikel Dufrenne.

Traces of Understanding

Author : Patrick L. Bourgeois
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051831450
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Traces of Understanding written by Patrick L. Bourgeois and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ontic

Author : David A. McAllester
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ontic written by David A. McAllester and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONTIC, the interactive system for verifying "natural" mathematical arguments that David McAllester describes in this book, represents a significant change of direction in the field of mechanical deduction, a key area in computer science and artificial intelligence. ONTIC is an interactive theorem prover based on novel forward chaining inference techniques. It is an important advance over such earlier systems for checking mathematical arguments as Automath, Nuprl, and the Boyer Moore system. The first half of the book provides a high-level description of the ONTIC system and compares it with these and other automated theorem proving and verification systems. The second half presents a complete formal specification of the inference mechanisms used. McAllester's is the only semi automated verification system based on classical Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. It uses object oriented inference, a unique automated inference mechanism for a syntactic variant of first order predicate calculus. The book shows how the ONTIC system can be used to check such serious proofs as the proof of the Stone representation theorem without expanding them to excessive detail. David A McAllester is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at MIT. ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematicsis included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Michael J. Brady.

The Sartrean Mind

Author : Matthew C. Eshleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317408160
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Sartrean Mind written by Matthew C. Eshleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His influence extends beyond academic philosophy to areas as diverse as anti-colonial movements, youth culture, literary criticism, and artistic developments around the world. Beginning with an introduction and biography of Jean-Paul Sartre by Matthew C. Eshleman, 42 chapters by a team of international contributors cover all the major aspects of Sartre’s thought in the following key areas: Sartre’s philosophical and historical context Sartre and phenomenology Sartre, existentialism, and ontology Sartre and ethics Sartre and political theory Aesthetics, literature, and biography Sartre’s engagements with other thinkers. The Sartrean Mind is the most comprehensive collection on Sartre published to date. It is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, as well as for those in related disciplines where Sartre’s work has continuing importance, such as literature, French studies, and politics.